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  • 16 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

brands based upon five ideas about transnational companies that are prominent in today's global discourse: quality, status, country-of-origin, citizenship, and American values. "Hence, managing the transnational brand requires View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
  • Article

How Warm Days Increase Belief in Global Warming

By: Lisa Zaval, Elizabeth A. Keenan, Eric J. Johnson and Elke U. Weber
Climate change judgments can depend on whether today seems warmer or colder than usual, termed the local warming effect. Although previous research has demonstrated that this effect occurs, studies have yet to explain why or how temperature abnormalities influence... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Attitudes
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  • 2012
  • Report

Sweden's Position in the Global Economy

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
In the spring of 2012, the Swedish economy is, as many of its peers, facing a difficult and uncertain economic environment. While these challenges are real, the Swedish economy looks much better prepared to deal with them than many of its peers. Following its own... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Financial Crisis; Government and Politics; Policy; Globalization; Competitive Advantage; Sweden
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  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

this market at the bottom of the economic pyramid (BOP) must look beyond just selling products—they must find ways to create social and economic value, according to the editors of a new volume, Business Solutions for the Global Poor. The... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Aug 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Built for Global Competition from the Start

Thanks to the Internet, entrepreneurs are no longer confined to a local geography when building a new business—the world can be their market from day one. But building a startup as a global business requires managers with skills and... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Education
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

articles, "Clusters and Competition: New Agendas for Companies, Governments, and Institutions" and "Competing Across Locations: Enhancing Competitive Advantage through a Global Strategy." Jim Aisner of HBS spoke with... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
  • 18 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

individuals and enable the integration of developing countries into the global economy. It’s an understanding that can be useful in the here and now, too. “This could be a good way for multinational... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • February 2016
  • Teaching Note

Indonesia: Growth and Stability in a Global Economy

By: Lakshmi Iyer
This country case on Indonesia is designed to enable a discussion of the potential risks in financial globalization. The country suffered a severe economic crisis in 1997-98 when global capital withdrew from many Asian countries. A significant currency depreciation of... View Details
Keywords: Indonesia; Growth; Stability; Currency Depreciation; Decentralization; Currency; Balance and Stability; Globalization; Economic Growth; Indonesia
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  • February 2011
  • Module Note

Business Cycles and the New Challenges of Globalization

By: Diego A. Comin
Business Cycles and the New Challenges of Globalization is one of the core modules in Business Government and the International Economy (BGIE), a course for the required curriculum of the Harvard Business School. BGIE teaches the economic, political and historical... View Details
Keywords: Fluctuation; Business Cycles; Trade; Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Capital; Cash Flow; Globalization; Problems and Challenges; China
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  • September 2015 (Revised March 2025)
  • Technical Note

FIELD Global Capstone: Developing Customer Empathy

By: Jill Avery
The Design Thinking process begins with empathizing with potential customers. Empathizing, being aware of, interpreting, and understanding the thoughts of others, as well as being able to vicariously experience them oneself, requires the careful and deliberate study of... View Details
Keywords: Market Research; Design Thinking; Customer Behavior; Ethnography; Interviews; Surveys; A/B Testing; Experimentation; Marketing; Customer Focus and Relationships; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers
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  • 28 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

What fuels a global economy? Certainly the easy flow of capital across national boundaries would seem near the top of the list. But financial globalization is not an on/off switch, notes Professor Rawi... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
  • Article

Government, Business, and Academia: Origins of Raymond Vernon's Understanding of Multinational Enterprise

By: Louis T Wells Jr
Keywords: Government and Politics; Business Ventures; Education; Global Range
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  • 20 Sep 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan & Vadym Volosovych
  • 2005
  • Book

Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century

By: Geoffrey Jones
This book provides an essential framework for understanding global business. It shows how entrepreneurs built a global economy in the nineteenth century by creating firms that pursued resources and markets across borders. It demonstrates how firms shifted strategies as... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalization; History; Economy; Trade; Strategy
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  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

articles, "Clusters and Competition: New Agendas for Companies, Governments, and Institutions" and "Competing Across Locations: Enhancing Competitive Advantage through a Global Strategy." Jim Aisner of HBS spoke with... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
  • 03 Oct 2005
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?

Summing Up Globalization could spur organized labor to rethink its premises, objectives, and strategies. But the prospect for that is not clear, according to respondents to this month's column. As Arun Joshi put it, "Now that the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

related to the possession of deep individual technical skills in hundreds of diverse disciplines," the researchers conclude in their paper, Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive Advantage. "Boeing's unique... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Where is Home for the Global Firm?

homegrown companies. But all that is changing as firms shape and adapt to global markets. Says HBS professor Mihir A. Desai, "The defining characteristics of what makes a firm belong to a country—where it is incorporated, where it is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies

of Comin's research with Mestieri and the results of his research with Hobijn, Easterly, and Gong suggest that up to 70 percent of differences in cross-country per capita income can be explained by differences in technology adoption. Comin reports that future research... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Dec 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Acting Globally but Thinking Locally? The Influence of Local Communities on Organizations

Keywords: by Christopher Marquis & Julie Battilana

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